Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

12th Internet Problem Solving Contest, This Sunday

Posted by timothy on from the how-about-that-durned-oil-spill dept.

misof writes "Roughly a thousand teams from all around the globe have already registered for IPSC 2010, which takes place on Sunday, June 6. $3,000 in prize money (courtesy of Facebook, Inc.) is waiting for the best few of them. Participation is free and the contest is open to everybody. IPSC is what you could call a programming contest with a twist. Over the years, the problems always push the boundary and go beyond the usual stuff you see in a programming contest. For example, in past few years the contestants have had to understand how arithmetic in computers differs from that in mathematics, produce a sequence of cache requests that generates many page faults, solve a logic puzzle given as a Flash game, and recognize images to evaluate a rock-paper-scissors game."

2 of 52 comments (clear)

  1. International Practical Shooting Confederation by Unending · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They could have chosen the name better that acronym is fairly well known for something else...

  2. Who is the real winner? by Megaflux · · Score: 3, Interesting

    3000 bucks for solving a problem that would cost FB at least 10 times more money in developing cost....